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Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...>
I'm happy with it Don. Thanks for the details.
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Rob Kirkham
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Don Valentine
Quoting Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@shaw.ca>:
Stafford, thanks for your input on these cars again. My interest is Let's try to clear a couple of things up here to assist Rod and others, too. The car for which the roof type has not been settled on yet is the second style of CNR car we plan, the CPR fleet being more homogeneous than that of the CNR in post war years. The fact that boards show on the outside of the roof does not necessarily mean that the car does not have a metal roof. This is due to the fact that some early metal roofs had wood sheathing ON TOP of the metal, strange as all that sounds. The CNR and CPR each used outside metal roofs from a different suppliers, primarily Hutchins for the CNR and primarily Chicago (who sold the Murphy style roof) for the CPR. The INSIDE metal roofs used by the two may well have been the same. Since they were hidden by the board sheathing it doesn't make any difference as the look of the board sheathing seems to be quite standard and doesn't seem to have been effected by the use of an INSIDE metal roof underneath some of them. This being said, my strong inclination has been to use a wood sheathed roof for the second style of CNR cars. Such a roof could be utilized for both straight wood sheathed roofs or wood sheathed roofs with an INSIDE metal roof. It was decided early on with this project to mold the cars having the floor included with the sides and ends, rather than the roof, for the reason that it provided greater flexibility with the roof. We could offer all cars with a choice of several roofs.....and earn the wrath of every hobby dealer in North America at least. It is better, however, to offer each style of car with only one roof but make roofs available separately so that modelers can change roofs if they wish to do so. That is what will be done and that is why I've been leaning so heavily toward the wood sheathed roof for the second style of CNR car. Then, with three different roofs available separately, if ever all modelers are happy with something, everyone should be happy. So, does that make everbody happy early on a Sunday morning? Take care, Don Valentine
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